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New York Review of Books and the American Intellectual Elite

December 9, 2008

Robert Silvers editor, New York Review of Books

Jenny Attiyeh host/producer, ThoughtCast

New York Review of Books editor Robert Silvers speaks with ThoughtCast on the occasion of the paper's 45th anniversary.

The New York Review was launched amidst a newspaper strike in the winter of 1963, and has continued unabated ever since. Devoted to intensive and nuanced coverage of politics, the arts, literature, science (and now movies and the Internet), the paper, as it’s called, is considered to be the premiere journal of the American intellectual elite.
Robert Silvers, its longtime editor, shared the post with Barbara Epstein until her death in 2006. He speaks with ThoughtCast in the WNYC studios in New York.

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